Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Atlantic Puffins were once almost extinct from Maine’s coast, their only native habitat in the United States. But after the ...

A closeup shot of an Atlantic puffin with a stick in the beak© Wirestock Creators/Shutterstock.com Atlantic puffins spend a surprising amount of time on two very domestic problems: keeping their ...

A juvenile Atlantic Puffin was found in a backyard in landlocked Wrentham, Massachusetts. The bird was taken in by the Congress of the Birds rescue in Chepachet, Rhode Island. Rescuers were concerned ...

February 2026 has seen thousands of dead seabirds washing up along the coastlines of the UK, France, Spain and Portugal.

WRENTHAM, MASS. (WHDH) - A family in Wrentham made a rare discovery in their backyard when they spotted an Atlantic puffin Sunday. The seabird species is not typically found as far inland as Wrentham.

Atlantic puffins spend much of their lives beyond human view, scattered across the cold waters of the North Atlantic. They only return to land during breeding season, and even then, only in remote ...

The first puffins have returned to their nesting grounds on the East Yorkshire coast, the RSPB has said. Dozens of the ...

Puffins, guillemots, razorbills and terns are washing up on shores across Europe, after a string of storms affected their ability to find food ...

But not to the rest of Maine. Islands that puffins had once inhabited had become enemy territory, occupied by colonies of large, aggressive, predatory gulls that thrived on the debris generated by a ...

There have been rare observations of puffins using sticks in a way that may indicate tool use, a behavior not previously documented in this species. Using a stick once thought to be just for nest ...